On 2012.5.18 2:18 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > [ a long list snipped] > > Now, tell us how you *really* feel about C?
http://schwern.net/img/Hate%20dog.jpg > In case you didn't guess it yet, I was playing advocatus diaboli in > reverse here. (In modernese: trolling.) In other words, your list > and argument was good, though many items were kind of like the same > thing. I have so much hate for C, I can't just say it once! > But: calling them "design mistakes" is like saying quills don't work > well on flatscreen displays. If you are really good, you can foresee > five years ahead, and design accordingly. 30 years? No way. The one > making a design mistake would be the one repeating C's design > deficiencies at this day and age, as you pointed out. Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system programming language in 2012. -- Anyway, last I saw him, the TPF goons were pouring concrete around him, leaving only one hole each for air, tea, and power. No ethernet, because he's using git. -- Eric Wilhelm on one of my disappearances
